Part 2 Of Building Your Own Fine Art America Enabled Website With Adobe Muse Is Up!

Any why exactly would I want to do that? That is reinventing the wheel isn't it? FAA already gives you your own website that is totally integrated?

Not to mention that when I used the search on your linked page, it took me to some stock photo page....

Floyd, there are a couple reasons to have your own website. One, you have total control over the appearance and features, (AW is incredibly limited.). Two, you control where it's hosted. While clicking on a photo on Bryan's website takes you to a window on FAA the user is still on Bryan's website.

I like this but...when I click on one of your images all seems fine. When I click 'next' I'm taken to your next image except I now see the main menu for FAA. If I decide to look under products, collections, etc I'm shown all the FAA artists. Even though I'm technically on your site, you've now potentially lost me as a customer. How is this beneficial?

Having your own website lets you control your web brand and allows you to provide the type of information you want your audience to see. It also builds up your web cred' and persona. And if you're into stats, you can get whatever stats you need with your personal website. AW provides a perfect means to integrate a sales platform onto your personal website but it does take a lot of work to make it look seamless, not for the screamish, and that's why AW by itself (which is all most people will ever need) is a great bargain! I use wordpress to build my personal website, it is very easy to use and very flexible with a host of templates to get you started. You can use wp as simple as you want or get into coding the php's and css's and be as complex as you want. And wp's network of users and their helpful blogs and forums make it very easy to resolve your website design issues. www.wingsdomain.com -W

David King, I have had my own websites for years. I had my own websites before eBay or Amazon or FAA were ever up and running. I still have 3 or 4 of my own websites.

My question is this thing he is talking about doing with G+. That sounds like something different than just owning your own website. It sounds like something in conjunction with G+ and not totally stand alone.

I may have misunderstood what the op is talking about. I will go read it again.

Hmm...it's a new tool from Adobe that allows easy web design without having to code. By enabling Google Adsense, and redirecting people to my branded site, they have everything they need from me all in one spot. They can purchase from my site, which is linked to FineArtAmerica and I'm making money from Google with every visit. If they come to Fine Art America, I only make anything if they buy something. I thought I would just share a new idea that might spark some cool promotional ideas for everybody here. Hope you guys liked it, if not, that's fine too. It'll be a pretty lengthy series, but in the end, you should be able to walk through the whole program and build a very similar setup that might open some other doors. Enjoy!

B